Position Overview
We are looking for an experienced Technical Project Lead to drive enterprise backend infrastructure transformation initiatives. This role will oversee the modernisation of backup and disaster recovery capabilities, datacentre infrastructure, network technologies and hardware lifecycle management.
The successful candidate will lead technical implementation, coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure infrastructure projects meet security, resilience, governance and operational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise backup and disaster recovery modernisation projects across multiple environments and locations.
- Drive backup solution implementation, migration, recovery testing and legacy platform decommissioning.
- Establish enterprise backup, retention, recovery and disaster recovery standards.
- Oversee immutable backup deployment and disaster recovery testing.
- Manage infrastructure hardware lifecycle, asset inventory and refresh planning.
- Lead Network Access Control (NAC) and SD-WAN implementation initiatives.
- Coordinate datacentre modernisation covering compute, storage and network infrastructure.
- Develop target-state infrastructure architecture, including hybrid cloud integration and automation.
- Work closely with cybersecurity, infrastructure, operations and vendors to ensure successful project delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
- Proven experience leading enterprise IT infrastructure or datacentre projects.
- Strong technical understanding of backup, disaster recovery, storage, compute and network infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure modernisation, migration and technology lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of NAC, SD-WAN, hybrid cloud or infrastructure automation will be an advantage.
- Strong project leadership, stakeholder management and vendor coordination skills.
- Good understanding of IT governance, security and audit requirements.